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Japanese
Academic Year 2025Year School/Graduate School School of Engineering
Lecture Code K7564030 Subject Classification Specialized Education
Subject Name 化学工学演習I
Subject Name
(Katakana)
カガクコウガクエンシュウI
Subject Name in
English
Chemical Engineering Exercise I
Instructor NAGASAWA HIROKI,HIRANO TOMOYUKI,GOTOH TAKEHIKO
Instructor
(Katakana)
ナガサワ ヒロキ,ヒラノ トモユキ,ゴトウ タケヒコ
Campus Higashi-Hiroshima Semester/Term 2nd-Year,  Second Semester,  Second Semester
Days, Periods, and Classrooms (2nd) Fri5-8:ENG 117
Lesson Style Seminar Lesson Style
(More Details)
Face-to-face, Online (simultaneous interactive)
Seminar 
Credits 2.0 Class Hours/Week 4 Language of Instruction J : Japanese
Course Level 2 : Undergraduate Low-Intermediate
Course Area(Area) 25 : Science and Technology
Course Area(Discipline) 08 : Chemical Engineering
Eligible Students
Keywords Unit Conversion, Mass balance, Energy balance, Momentum transport, Energy transport, Mass transport  
Special Subject for Teacher Education   Special Subject  
Class Status
within Educational
Program
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
In this class, students will learn more and develop further understanding about chemical engineering using seminars about what the students have learned in the fundamental subjects.
Students are supposed to have finished the class “Stoichiometry” before this seminar.
Students are preferred to take the class “Basic Chemical Engineering” with this seminar.
 
Criterion referenced
Evaluation
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Program of Applied Chemistry
(Knowledge and Understanding)
・Wide range of basic knowledge on liberal arts and specialized education, and professional basic knowledge on chemistry.
・Advanced technical knowledge of applied chemistry.
・The conception ability based on logical thinking supported by basic and technical knowledge.

Program of Chemical Engineering
(Abilities and Skills)
・Definite learning of basic chemistry and chemical engineering and cultivation of application ability
chemical engineering basis

Program of Biotechnology
(Knowledge and Understanding)
・Acquisition of basic and advanced knowledge relating to biotechnology and life science. (Target/Lecture class) 
Class Objectives
/Class Outline
The objective of this seminar is to acquire the knowledges and abilities as follows;
1) Ability to understand about handling of physical quantity and to calculate it including unit conversion
2) Ability to calculate mass balance in a system without reacton and with combustion reaction
3) Ability to calculate enthalpy balance without reaction
4) Ability to understand about handling of heat of reaction and to calculate enthalpy balance
5) Ability to calculate mass, heat and energy balance in flow system.
6) Ability to understand about basic heat transfer and to calculate engineering calculation.
7) Ability to calculate the heat balance for the design of heat exchanger.
8) Ability to understand about basic mass transfer and to calculate engineering calculation.
 
Class Schedule Lecture 1: Guidance
Lecture 2: Stoichiometry: Unit Conversion
Lecture 3: Stoichiometry: Material Balance (1) – Material Balance in Reactive Systems
Lecture 4: Stoichiometry: Material Balance (2) – Material Balance in Chemical Processes
Lecture 5: Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering: Reactions
Lecture 6: Stoichiometry: Energy Balance (1) – Heat of Reaction and Enthalpy Balance
Lecture 7: Stoichiometry: Energy Balance (2) – Energy Balance in Chemical Processes
Lecture 8: Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering: Gas Absorption
Lecture 9: Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering: Distillation and Extraction
Lecture 10: Stoichiometry: Combined Material and Energy Balance
Lecture 11: Stoichiometry: Comprehensive Exercise (Proficiency Test)
Lecture 12: Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering: Fluid Flow (1)
Lecture 13: Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering: Fluid Flow (2)
Lecture 14: Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering: Heat Transfer (1)
Lecture 15: Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering: Heat Transfer (2)
Lecture 15: Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering: Comprehensive Exercise (Proficiency Test)

A proficiency test for the stoichiometry field will be conducted in Lecture 11. Additionally, a proficiency test will be conducted for the fundamentals of chemical engineering field in Lecture 16. 
Text/Reference
Books,etc.
The materials are distributed at every seminar. Preparation and review of each class is necessary with textbooks as follows.
Koichi Asano, "Kagaku Purosesu Keisann", Kyoritsu Shuppan (Japanese)
Kenji Hashimoto and Fumimaru Ogino, "Gendai Kagaku Kougaku", Sangyo Tosho (Japanese)
Kenji Hashimoto, "Basic Kagaku Kougaku", Kagaku Dojin (Japanese) 
PC or AV used in
Class,etc.
Text, Handouts, Visual Materials, Microsoft Teams
(More Details) Textbook・Handouts・PC
*Since the communication equipments are not required in this seminor, you should put them away. 
Learning techniques to be incorporated Discussions, Quizzes/ Quiz format, Flip Teaching, Post-class Report
Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review
Lecture 1: Explanation of Lecture Plan and Important Notices
Lecture 2: Exercises on Handling Physical Quantities and Unit Conversion Methods
Lecture 3: Exercises on Material Balance in Reactive Systems, Including Combustion Reactions
Lecture 4: Exercises on Material Balance in Chemical Processes
Lecture 5: Exercises on Reaction Engineering
Lecture 6: Exercises on Heat of Reaction and Enthalpy Balance
Lecture 7: Exercises on Enthalpy Balance in Chemical Processes
Lecture 8: Exercises on Gas Absorption
Lecture 9: Exercises on Distillation and Extraction
Lecture 10: Exercises on the Combination of Material and Energy Balance
Lecture 11: Thorough Review of Stoichiometry Exercises
Lecture 12 & 13: Exercises on Fluid Flow
Lecture 14 & 15: Exercises on Heat Transfer
Lecture 16: Thorough Review of Exercises in the Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering. 
Requirements Students are required to attend all seminars and submit all reports.
Prepare textbook, scientific electronic calculator, writing pad (A4), writing tools, stapler and ruler. 
Grading Method Up to 50 points for the mid-term and the term-end examinations.
Up to 50 points for every seminar attendance and all report submission.
Any score below 60 points counts as failure.
Less than 12 times attendances for seminars are disqualified. 
Practical Experience Experienced  
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it worked for engineering company for 3 years.
exhibit the examples of construction of chemical plant and how to utilize the knowledge of transport phenomena in the design of the plant. 
Message This seminar corresponds to advance chemical engineering for all education programs of cluster 3. Refer to following web to see details about objectives of the chemical engineering program. 
Other https://www.chemeng.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/# 
Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching. 
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